HSTR 159 World History to 1500 CE. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

3cr. Examines the development of world civilizations from origins through 1500 CE. Particular attention is paid to the social, economic, political, religious, and cultural issues which shape the world today.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: History

HSTR 160 Modern World History. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

3cr. Examines the development of world civilizations from 1500 CE to the present. Particular attention is paid to the social, economic, political, religious, and cultural issues which shape the world today.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: History

HSTR 298 Internship/Cooperative Educ. 1-9 Credits

Provides university credit for a sophomore work experience in the area of History supervised by faculty. Learning agreement must be completed prior to registration (restricted).

Department: History

HSTR 302 Ancient Greece. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall (odd years)

Examines the civilization of Ancient Greece from the Minoan Crete period (c. 2600-1400 B.C.) to the fall of the Corinth in 146 B.C. with emphasis on the contributions of politics, art, literature, and philosophy to the western tradition.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: History

HSTR 304 Ancient Rome. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Spring (even years)

Covers the history of ancient Rome from its earliest point through the years of the Republic and Empire.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: History

HSTR 305 Middle Ages. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall (even years)

Considers the collapse of ancient civilization and the emergence of a new distinctive European civilization in the millennium between 300 and 1300 A.D. Emphasis is placed on the decline and fall of Rome; the integration of Greco-Roman, Christian, and German elements in a new culture; and the creation of European political, economic, social, and intellectual institutions.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: History

HSTR 317 Renaissance & Reformation. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Spring (odd years)

Explores the events and ideas from the waning of the Middle Ages through conclusion of the Thirty Years War. Examines the impact of the Hundred Years War, the bubonic plague, the roots of the modern nation state, civic and northern humanism as well as the social, political, cultural, and religious issues from the beginning of Luther’s protest to the end of the religious wars in Europe.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: History

HSTR 318 Enlight & Revol, 1648-1815. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall (odd years)

Explores social, political, cultural, and intellectual issues in Europe from the end of the religious wars to Napoleon’s downfall. Central themes are the nature of baroque culture and its use by absolute monarchies in continental Europe and the character of the Enlightenment and its role as a precursor to the French Revolution. The French Revolution and the rule of Napoleon will be examined in detail. Moreover, this course examines many diverse aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European history.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: History

HSTR 327 The History of Punk Rock. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Spring

Prerequisite(s): N/A. Corequisites

3cr. The course will begin with the post-WWII era, linger on the neo-conservatism of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, and end with the global revitalization of Punk Rock in response to the USA’s neo-imperial reaction to the events of 11 September 2001. Punk was and continues to be a relevant cultural movement rooted in the evolving social, political, economic, and aesthetic contexts of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: History

HSTR 328 Modern European History. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Spring

Prerequisite(s): HSTA 200.

3cr. Introduces students to some of the major events, themes, developments, and individuals that marked Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth century. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries marked moments of intense change, possibility, tragedy, and transformation. In this course, we will explore some of the major shifts in political system, the economy, conceptions of citizenship, colonization and decolonization, violence and upheaval, and revolutionary ideologies. What constitutes “Europe” was often highly contested and different visions of “modernity” ushered in competing theories of what Europe should look like in the future. Throughout the semester students will analyze a broad range of primary texts produced in the nineteenth and twentieth century.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: History

HSTR 332 Pre-Columbian & Col Lat Am. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall (odd years)

Covers the history of Latin America before the arrival of the Europeans, conquest and colonialism, paying particular attention to the interchange between native and European cultures, the place of the Church in the colonial period, and pre-independence political and economic development.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: History

HSTR 336 Modern Latin America. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Spring (even years)

Deals with selective topics such as the independence movement, the social/cultural/political/economic development of Latin American countries, with special emphasis on U.S.-Latin American relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: History

HSTR 417 Early Mod Sci: Scientific Revl. 3 Credits

(Sp every 2 years) Examines the growth of “science” at the cusp of “modernity” and the role of social, political, religious, and commercial developments that both hindered and made possible such landmark theories as heliocentrism, elliptical paths of the planets, the circulation of the blood, and gravity. This course highlights interdisciplinary pursuits, as students of history, philosophy, biology, chemistry, physics, etc. all bring unique disciplinary knowledge to a subject that exists beyond those boundaries.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: History

HSTR 420 Ancient & Medieval Archaeology. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Spring (odd years)

Examines the material culture (i.e. art, architecture, and artifacts) of ancient and medieval worlds from the dawn of civilization through the sixteenth century CE. The course explores the following: an introduction to archaeology as a tool for understanding the past, dating systems, archaeological methods, the material culture of the ancient and medieval worlds, the formation and perpetuation of the western traditions in art and architecture, urban planning and construction techniques, architectural orders, artistic styles, and the process of archaeological reconstruction.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: History

HSTR 440 Topics in Asian History. 3 Credits

Examines special topics in Asian history.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: History

HSTR 450 Women in Euro Hist Since 1700. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Spring

Explores the relationship between women and politics, society, economics, the family, and culture in Europe from 1700 to the present. Emphasizes diverse experiences of women across Europe, their relationship to the state and society and gendered assumptions related to femininity and its relationship to other categories of difference. Particular attention is paid to women and the Enlightenment, French Revolution, the development of the Nation State, WWI, WWII, the Holocaust, the Cold War, and the Student and Women’s Movements.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: History

HSTR 462 Holocaust in Nazi Occupied Eur. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Spring (odd years)

Examines the Holocaust in Nazi occupied Europe from 1933 to 1945. Covers the origins, causes, motivations, and effects of the discrimination, internment, and genocidal actions of the Nazi regime. The Holocaust is put into its larger historical perspective prior to and after the actual event.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: History

HSTR 487 Monsters in Modern Euro Hist. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall

Introduces students to come of the major themes and developments related to the historical construction and significance of monsters in European history from the sixteenth century to the present. The main focus will be on understanding the specific nature of a particular monster, the historical context in which it was created and its relation to larger social, political, and cultural questions.

Lecture Hours 3

Department: History

HSTR 491 Special Topics. 3 Credits

Explores the political, social, cultural, and intellectual history of a particular European country or region in the modern era. The course focuses on turning points in a given country’s (or region’s) history as well as various issues related to identity, social life, and government. The course seeks to provide a specialized knowledge of an individual European country’s (or region’s) history in more depth than the general European survey. Topics under this title may include France since 1789, Germany since 1517, England since 1688, or Eastern Europe since 1918. This course shall be repeatable for up to 6 credits with instructor approval.

Department: History

HSTR 492 Independent Study. 1-5 Credits

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor and chairperson of the department.

Provides outstanding students an individual opportunity to explore material not covered by regular History courses. The student’s proposal for independent study must be approved before registering and the student’s GPA in previous History courses must be at least 3.00.

Department: History

HSTR 494 Seminar/Workshop. 1-8 Credits

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

Provides an opportunity for experimental study in an area of History.

Department: History

HSTR 498 Internship/Cooperative Educ. 1-9 Credits

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.

Provides university credit for a work experience in the area of History supervised by faculty. Learning agreement must be completed prior to registration (restricted).

Department: History

HSTR 499 Senior Thesis/Capstone. 3 Credits

Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

Analyzes how historians ask methodological and interpretive questions and how they answer those questioned intellectually and technically. Aids the student in developing an understanding of the historical profession and the tasks of the historian through research and writing exercises, the investigation and evaluation of primary and secondary materials, and study of various methodologies employed by historians.

Department: History